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Knock Farril
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2888
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2888 (2888)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Ross-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Fodderty
- National Grid reference
- NH 5048 5852
- Latitude
- 57.59195
- Longitude
- -4.50307
- Altitude
- 218 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 3, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.33 ha
- Footprint
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall and vitrification
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1777); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1873); Earthwork Survey (1905); Earthwork Survey (1918); Other (1965); Other (1969); Other (1970); Other (1978); Other (1985); Other (1989); Other (1997); Earthwork Surve
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1672
- HER
- Highland HER MHG7152
- National record
- record NH 55 NW 10; monument 12782
- Wikidata
- Q31101905
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 148-9)
- Fraser, J (1906) 'Vitrified fort of Knockfarrel'. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club 6 (1899-1906), 288-91
- Headland Archaeology (2011) Knock Farril, Fodderty and Ord Hill, Knockbain: topographic survey for the Forestry Commission. Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd
- Sanderson, D, PLacido, F & Tate, J O (1988) 'Scottish vitrified forts: TL results from six study sites.' Int J Radiat Appl Instrum, Part D, Nucl Tracks Radiat Meas 14 (1988), 307-16
- Wallace, T (1918) 'Notes on the parish of Petty'. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club 8 (1912-18), 87-136
- Wessel, J (2011) 'Knock Farril and Ord Hill, Highland (Fodderty and Knockbain parishes), survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 12 (2011), 104-105
- Williams, J (1777) An account of some remarkable ancient ruins, lately discovered in the highlands and northern parts of Scotland: in a series of letters to G.C.M. Esq., Edinburgh